/u/One_Parched_Guy's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The strongest threat to the Earth isn’t an omniversal force or a destructive Goliath, but a person who can make others feel the collective grief of all humanity.
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[WP] When your kid was a baby, you frequently found toys you didn’t buy in their possession after leaving the store, despite keeping an eye on them. As they grew up, it kept happening, and they explained it as their imaginary friend bringing it to them.
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[WP] You’re a shapeshifter who gets paid through the Dark Web to frame others. You’re good at your job, and it’s fairly easy at this point. However, you’re one day hired to frame yourself.
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[WP] You can see the percentage chance of various events. The chance of succeeding, failing and so on. If you don’t focus on a specific subject, things that might useful to you will pop up on their own from time to time. Today, you see someone and are notified “Chance that they know: 50%”.
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[WP] You’re a vampire in hiding. Usually, it would be pretty tough to keep your secret, but in the modern age, you can pretty much pass it off as a multitude of rare diseases while keeping a healthy social life and source of blood.
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[WP] As the songbirds sing outside, you happily hum to their chirping. One approaches you curiously, and begins to sing. Gradually, you begin to understand their song, as long as you keep singing along.
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[WP] The universe doesn’t want you hurt. Ever since youth, any situation that could have hurt you, miraculously made it so you wouldn’t. However, to compensate for this, the situation that would have hurt you, hurts something or someone else.
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[WP] Prophecies are often vague, frustrating and unavoidable. A little known fact is that they’re so vague because only the ending is preordained - how you arrive there is totally flexible. You are hired as a Prophecy Translator, and your job is to figure out positive ways a prophecy can happen.
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[WP] Turns out, everyone *does* have superpowers. It just happen that all of them have incredibly niche and extensive activation requirements…
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[WP] You’re the best Superhero in your city. Your power? To hex people to suffer minor inconveniences (the stubbing of toes, the losing of keys, etc…) every day. The villains don’t kill you because they don’t know if the hex will continue after your death. Eventually, they all submit to justice.
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